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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about East Benton came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of East Benton in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about East Benton. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our East Benton data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for East Benton:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

East Benton is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for East Benton. See our Misc Page for East Benton for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/